Hi, I am a java competitive programmer. In most competitions, parsing input
using java.util.Scanner is too slow to meet strict time limits. This forces
participants to manually write out lengthy custom FastScanner classes
(usually based on BufferedReader and StringTokenizer) for every submission
Many other competitive programmers and I would like to add a FastScanner so
we don't have to implement it every time. It would include only the
essential methods of the standard Scanner (nextInt(), nextLong(), next()),
making it run much faster.
I hope this utility can be considered for a future version of Java; I think
competitive platforms will also update their Java version to the latest one
Best regards,
Maxim.
